WST 445 - Trauma,Hysteria,and R e p re s e n t a t i o n

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University of Southern Maine

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From the anguished poses of patients at 19th-century psychiatric hospitals to war neuroses to PTSD, clinical and literary accounts of hysteria both reflect and construct gendered assumptions about psychology, femininity, and manliness. In literature of WWI, in accounts of multiple personality, in such books as Robert Lifton's The Protean Self, these assumptions also serve to define what we consider "modern,"how we address anxieties of modern life in health care and social policy, and how we imagine the modernist world of 20th- and 21st-century poetry and fiction. Readings include Janet, Freud, Morton Prince, histories of hysteria and trauma, and literary texts including Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Pat Barker's Trilogy on WWI, Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway, and individual readings in the disciplines of members of the class. Cr 3.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.usm.maine.edu

Phone Number:

(207) 780-4141

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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